Last April, in an article which covered an ethics complaint filed by the Center for Media and Democracy against 43 Republican state legislators, The BRAD BLOG went to great lengths to explain how the "legislative task force" system employed by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) was not merely subverting but supplanting our representative form of democracy. It was an article that would later be reprinted by The American Trial Lawyer magazine.

But, leave it to a Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist, like Mark Fiore, to provide a more succinct explanation of the same phenomenon in this relatively short but powerful animated toon...

I've been here all week, protesting ALEC and I have talked to most of the people who were protesting, but yesterday I was standing next to an attractive guy I hadn't seen before who was joining in with the rest.

A man with a camcorder began questioning this stranger - to me - and I heard the stranger saying that gun violence could be an option to resolve these issues. This seemed very odd to me, since I haven't heard anybody here say that before.

Later on, in an evening event, I saw the man with the camcorder taping everything that was going on and decided to walk over and ask him who he represented. At first he resisted, and seemed annoyed at my question, but then quickly admitted he was taping the event for Breitbart. I said, Breitbart's dead. He said "may he rest in peace" as my face struggled. I asked him if he was going to edit everything I said to him. At that point, a local came over and convinced me not to continue the conversation.

Turns out that, indeed, he and at least one other "reporter" were credentialed Breitbart agents.